Update src/doc/contributors.xml, if necessary, by adding any new contributors

Update src/etc/CHANGELOG

Update, if necessary, any docs in src/doc

Update src/doc/release-notes.xml

Update src/etc/VERSION

Update src/main/org/exolab/castor/util/Version.java

Do build: build release

Upload dist/* to /home/projects/castor/dist/<release> at beaver.codehaus.org

Upload build/doc/* /home/projects/castor/public_html at beaver.codehaus.org. Before doing so, please create a sub-directory (using the current release number) under public_html and move the current documentation there.

Post-release instructions

Synchronisation with ibiblio.org/maven2

By default, following the instructions above, Castor will be deployed on the Codehaus Maven repository only. To get the Castor release artefacts properly propagated to http://ibiblio.org/maven2, please either send a short email to the 'maven-dev' mailing list or raise a Jira chore at http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MEV

Maven integration

To make a new Castor release available for Maven builds, at IBiblio, under the dist directory, create a jars directory with relative symbolic links to jars in dist/<release> subdirectories.